Selected Projects

Technical products and data platforms I have built.

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Areaview.ai

Flagship Project

Geospatial Real Estate Market Analytics Platform

Areaview.ai was a geospatial analytics platform designed to help real estate investors evaluate housing markets more efficiently. The platform aggregated hundreds of economic, demographic, and housing metrics and visualized them through an interactive map interface, allowing users to compare potential investment locations across the United States.

Key Metrics

240,000+Neighborhoods
80,000Census Tracts
30,000ZIP Codes
150+Data Metrics
NationwideCoverage

Problem

Real estate investment research requires information from many fragmented sources such as housing prices, rent trends, demographics, crime statistics, and economic indicators. Collecting and comparing this data across multiple markets can require many hours of manual research.

Areaview.ai was designed to centralize this information and allow users to explore markets through a unified geospatial interface.

Platform Features

Interactive Map Visualization

Pan, zoom, and explore housing markets through a responsive geospatial interface.

Location Search Across Levels

Search by neighborhood, census tract, or ZIP code to compare locations side by side.

Automated Area Reports

Generate exportable summaries with key metrics and charts for any selected area.

Derived Investment Metrics

Surface composite indicators that highlight relative opportunity and risk.

Real-time Messaging System

Enable investors and collaborators to discuss markets directly inside the platform.

Technical Stack

Frontend

Next.jsReactTypeScriptTailwind CSS

Geospatial Visualization

LeafletMapLibreMapTiler

Backend & Infrastructure

PostgreSQLPostGISAWS RDS

Authentication & Messaging

ClerkAbly

Data Sources

The platform combined public and commercial datasets to provide a multi-dimensional view of local housing markets.

American Community SurveyZillow housing dataRealtor.com dataFBI crime statisticsNASA weather dataBureau of Labor Statistics

Engineering Challenges

Rendering large geospatial datasets efficiently was one of the most difficult engineering problems. The platform needed to visualize thousands of geographic polygons while maintaining fast and responsive map interactions.

Additional challenges included handling changing census boundaries across years and aggregating metrics across multiple geographic levels without losing spatial accuracy.

Outcome & Lessons

Although the platform demonstrated large-scale geospatial data integration and full-stack development, it did not ultimately succeed commercially.

The primary challenge was customer acquisition rather than technical feasibility. The project nevertheless provided extensive experience in geospatial data engineering, full-stack application architecture, and building large-scale data platforms.